Re: You will not have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs!

[email protected] (Dan Sugalski) Thu, 10 May 2001 17:18:43 -0400

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At 10:06 PM 5/10/2001 +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>I'd just like to make this abundantly clear, since there seems to be
>some confusion (and hopefully I'm not the one confused).
>
>*** You will NOT have to rewrite your Perl 5 programs ***
>
>Perl 6 *will* provide a backwards compatible Perl 5 parser.  The
>details are not nailed down, but this definately will happen.

Damn straight. One way or another, perl 6 will eat perl 5 code close to 
painlessly. (Typeglobs, perhaps, aside)

					Dan

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